Apple is likely to launch iOS 17, bringing significant design changes to iPhone’s Control Centre, the media has reported. Apple recently has recently announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023 in an online format from June 5 through 9 and this year’s edition of the annual event is likely to bring the latest version of its operating systems.
According to a report by MacRumors, iOS 17 will feature ‘major’ changes to Control Center on the iPhone, as posted by a MacRumors forum member who leaked accurate details about the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro before the model was announced in 2022.
The design changes planned for the iPhone’s Control Centre have not been detailed so far, which have largely remained untouched since iOS 11 was launched in 2017. On the iPhone X and newer iPhone models, the Control Centre can be opened by swiping down from the top-right corner of the screen.
Meanwhile, Apple is said to introduce the next update to its operating system, the iOS 17 software update with new features that users have been requesting for a while, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman recently said. The tech giant has apparently changed its strategy and included many new features in the later stages of its development.
This is contrary to Gurman’s previous report from January which said that Apple would not be introducing significant changes with the iOS 17 update as it has shifted its focus on its long-awaited mixed reality (MR) headset.
In his ‘Power On’ newsletter, Gurman noted: “When Apple set out to develop iOS 17, the initial thinking was to call it a tuneup release — one focused more on fixing bugs and improving performance than adding new features (not unlike the approach the company took with Snow Leopard on Mac OS X back in 2009). The hope was to avoid the problems of iOS 16, an ambitious update that suffered from missed deadlines and a buggy start. But later in the development process, the strategy changed.”
The iOS 17 release is now expected to boast several “nice to have” features, even if it lacks a tentpole improvement like last year’s revamped lock screen. The goal of the software, codenamed “Dawn,” is to check off several of users’ most requested features, he added in the newsletter.